Message from Yokohama College of Commerce

Chair, Board of Trustees
Eiji MATSUMOTO

“Take up challenges with a positive and independent attitude”

Our school has just celebrated the 40th Anniversary in 2006.  Since the foundation, we have been holding up the school precepts, “Be a responsible person that one can trust you to do things,” and we have been producing a large number of promising quality graduates.  At the same time, we have been consistently aiming at training professionals and experts --- that is, we expect our students to enhance specialized knowledge, moral values, the sense of responsibility, service-minded personality, ethics of business, and ability to adapt to a new environment promptly.  We assume that only those who obtain these essential elements can be a reliable professional.

We hope our students to possess a strong sense of purpose for future and spend four years with a positive and independent attitude.  In practice, studying at college means, in our interpretation, to absorb as much knowledge as possible and to learn how to change it into practical wisdom for life.  Our school provides a small-class education which enables our members of staff and students to build a closer and friendlier relationship between them, and a cozy and homey atmosphere created under such circumstances is one of our unique features.

We introduced a semester system to our school and organized a new curriculum in 2005. This change is basically intended to enrich our skill-enhancing education focusing on computer, language, and bookkeeping in particular, which starts from the first grade.  Furthermore, in order to develop the individuality of each student, more variety in courses has been offered for attaining some specific qualifications.

We will devote ourselves to educate our students to be a professional who can respond to various kinds of social demands and take a major role in the new era.

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President
Kiyoharu KUBO

“Reinforce small-class education and practical studies, and learn to be a responsible person”

As our school name indicates, Yokohama College of Commerce is characterized not only as a place to study the field of commerce in the main but also to promote character formation through learning.  In our interpretation, character-building means “to be a responsible person,” just as our school precepts indicate.  This is simply because a relationship of trust is of considerable importance even in any kinds of business transaction dealing with merchandise and service.

In addition, our school features rigid ties between our members of staff and students, and a humane and family atmosphere.  We are determined to strengthen our small-group instruction at even more than the current level, whereas we will enhance practical studies by, for instance, hiring some specially appointed staff as a lecturer from the actual business world.  Furthermore, our school offers abundant choices for study such as practical extension lectures, extracurricular lessons, and courses for attaining a specific qualification.  We hope our students keep holding their interests and concerns in various kinds of things, and enrich their precious four years with us at our college.